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Why New York City Is Known as the Big Apple
Readers offer explanations from history and folklore. Answers cite the circus era phrase big time the big apple, jazz slang in the 1920s, a health of tourism campaigns, and stories of apples on street corners during the 1930s downturn.
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Abby
Empire State Building
New York City
Glendale
Ariz
Garden of Eden
Norman
Newark
AwBy
New York
Cornell Thompson
Houston
Convention and Visitors’ Bureau
New York State
Buffalo
Mario Cuomo
Big Apple
Walter Winchell
A. Nolan
Atlanta
Leonard Cookson